About fifteen years ago, the railroad museum in Snoqualmie, Washington refurbished their ex-Great Northern ballast regulator:
Despite saying Wisconsin & Southern on it's side, this little fella was in the KCS yard in Vicksburg MS on Monday 08-22-2022. Sure not a road name I expected to catch on any MoW equipment there.
Using a heavy-duty leaf blowers to unclog the switches... hmmm... He could soup up his blower and use it as a jet pack.
Yesterday I caught part of this mixed heading east with a load of MOW equipment. Glendive has a MOW equipment shop, which I am sure was being used to do maintenance on these things,